Civil War Crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. The end of the war. Where Lee knew he had no choice but to surrender
  2. 8. legal authority to detain a person
  3. 9. This battle is the bloodiest single day of the Civil War with about 23,000 dead and wounded.
  4. 10. This is the turning point of the war, resulting a union victory.
  5. 12. Winner of the Election of 1860
  6. 13. The formal withdrawal of a state from the union.
  7. 14. freeing all slaves in the seceded states
Down
  1. 1. After 36 hours of battle, the Union troops surrendered with NO lives lost.
  2. 2. Where General Sherman and his men burned a path up to 60 miles wide, burned crops, poisoned wells, killed livestock and turned railroad ties into "Shernan's neckties".
  3. 3. a strategy where north blocked southern ports to all imports/exports
  4. 4. Person who shot Lincoln in the back of his head on April 14, 1865
  5. 6. The general who fought a war of attrition.
  6. 7. A tactic where killing southern soldiers that could not be replaced.
  7. 10. The General who lead the Union Army in the deep South.
  8. 11. In the duration of this battle, the southern victory assured that south that this would be a quick war fought against inferior troops